Helaman 14:30 · 2 Nephi 10:23
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Samuel the Lamanite re-sounds the agency charter of 2 Nephi 2 in the same second-person address Jacob used at 2 Nephi 10:23. The verbatim shared core is 'free… act for yourselves'; both verses pair freedom with the imperative directed at the hearer. Lehi's headwater verse 2 Nephi 2:26 ('to act for themselves and not to be acted upon') is third person and is the doctrine's source, but the tightest verbal contact for Helaman 14:30 is Jacob's second-person 10:23 ('ye are free to act for yourselves') - hence the pairing here. Distribution of the act-for-oneself phrase across all of the corpus ('act for himself', 2:16; 'act for themselves', 2:26; 'act for yourselves', 10:23 and 14:30): exactly four loci - 2 Nephi 2:16, 2 Nephi 2:26, 2 Nephi 10:23, and Helaman 14:30. Helaman 14:30 is the ONLY occurrence outside 2 Nephi - the act-for-self vocabulary, exclusive to Lehi's discourse and Jacob's echo in all of 1-2 Nephi, now reappears for the first time in a later book, on the lips of a Lamanite prophet preaching the doctrine back to the Nephites. Cross-link samuel-the-lamanite.md. Companion record hel-opp-restored-to-good carries Helaman 14:31's restoration end.